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Case Number : Case 1077 - 8th August Posted By: Admin_Dermpath

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M65. Biopsy ankle. Chronic liver disease. ?Bullous dermatosis

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Arti Bakshi

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Hmm..difficult.
The most striking feature is the confluent parakeratosis. This coupled with tortuous capillaries in the papillary dermis and increased basal mitoses, initially made me think of psoriasis, but there are no neutrophils. (plus clinical does not fit)
So would consider a nutritional deficiency, perhaps on a background of chronic liver disease.

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There´s some patients with chronic liver disease mostly by viral hepatitis C infection who develops sacaly plaques over dorsal acral surfaces. I think this patient has Necrolytic acral erythema.
The histological pictures are very similar to other nutritional disorders like Necrolitic migratory erythema and Pelagra.

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Robledo F. Rocha

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Agree with nutritional deficiency. There´s neither inflammatory infiltrate nor regular epidermal hyperplasia for psoriasis. Also, confluent parakeratosis is a clue for nutritional deficiency.
Suggesting another diagnostic hypothesis, glucagonoma syndrome, which may be associated to advanced liver cirrhosis, may present as necrolytic migratory erythema with microscopic features like those shown in the pictures above.

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Arti Bakshi

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Like Igor's suggestion of necrolytic acral erythema, would fit with the clinical. Important to know hep C status.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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Fits with necrolytic acral erythema

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Based on clinical history consistent with necrolytic acral erythema

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Based on clinical history consistent with necrolytic acral erythema

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Guest Romualdo

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Agree with necrolytic acral erythema.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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The initial reporting pathologist called this bowen's disease. The clinical colleagues had queried nutritional deficiency and tested the Zinc levels which were very low. The diagnosis was therefore nutritional deficiency dermatosis due to low zinc (acrodermatitis enteropathica). I have not personally seen a case of necrolytic acal erythema in the UK either personally or for that matter presented at any meeting although I understand that some (but not all) cases are associated with low zinc levels. For completeness I will try to enquire about the nature of the underlying liver disease although this case is a from a few years ago and was shared with me by a colleague at another institute.
Enjoy the rest of your weekends.

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